@JTT,
That's because the technical details of the controversy are outside the scope of our experience and the range of our knowledge. And when farmerman, who seems to be familiar with some of the materials and their properties, attempts to counter any of the claims you've found on the web, you just start insulting him in a particularly malicious manner. Suddenly the discussion is turned into a debate about the collective guilt of USAmericans — which is an entirely separate issue.
Quote:...no A2Ker even wants to try.
No, it's not that no one wants to try, it's that no one wants to engage with
you.
It's not difficult to find accounts which contradict the narrative you favor. But just posting contradictory theories from various websites and blogs isn't going to establish the factual basis for us to make any conclusions other than those based on faith, faith in the quoted sources. The argument is between the engineers and specialists who have technical expertise, not between people on a message board who, at best, might be able to assess the logic of the arguments but lack the scientific background to really determine who's right or wrong.
Given the difficulty of knowing who to believe, people will come down on one side or the other based on further consideration of the total context of the event. Numerous bits of evidence involve the 19 Arab hijackers, OBL, and al-Qaeda and there's a clear motive for conducting a terrorist act against the USA. On the other hand, nearly twenty years after the event, those insisting it was an "inside job" have provided nothing more than "jet fuel can't melt steel beams". There's been no accusation as to who was behind this decision and no explanation as to why it was done in the first place. Meanwhile we're supposed to believe there were no jets and no terrorists, yet nearly twenty years after the disaster, no one who believes in the "inside job" story has been able to show that the alleged hijackers didn't buy tickets for those flights and that they weren't observed making these purchases on CCTV.
I'm not going to get drawn into this debate with you but I did want to register my disappointment with your whole attitude and the way you treat other people on this website. People believe one story or the other and probably made up their minds fifteen years ago. There are plenty of engineers who can counter the "scientific" claims you quote from the conspiracy websites, and plenty of sites where the claims of the "truthers" are debunked. The fact that there are more websites upholding the "inside job" version doesn't mean that the facts are on your side, just that the rest of us aren't that desperate to keep this pointless discussion going on forever.
"None of these stories prove there was molten (as in liquid) steel at the WTC. There's no evidence temperatures were hot enough to produce that (whatever the energy source), and some of the stories claiming
"molten steel" have built-in implausibilities. There was certainly glowing metal, but this only indicates temperatures within the range of a fire."